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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Chris Barker / The Bulletin
March 17, 2003
Mike Daly remembers when the dirt was there virtually for the taking.
It was the late 1970s, Central Oregon was in the midst of a construction boom and the Deschutes County landfill was flush from mining an uninterrupted, 90-foot-deep seam of dirt - a rarity in the lava-cut badlands east of....